Beauvoir
Beauvoir can refer to any of the following:
- Buildings, homes and plantations
- "Beauvoir", in Biloxi, Mississippi, post-American Civil War home of Jefferson Davis (1807/08–1889), only President of the Confederate States (1861–1865), facing the Gulf Coast of the Gulf of Mexico
- Pontikokastro, a castle in southern Greece, known as Beauvoir by the Frankish Crusaders
- People
- Jean Beauvoir, American musician.
- Richard Benyon De Beauvoir (1769–1854), British Member of Parliament.
- Roger de Beauvoir (1806–1866), pen name of French writer, Eugène Auguste Roger de Bully.
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
- Hélène de Beauvoir (1910–2001), French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.
- Schools
- Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School, adjacent to Washington National Cathedral on Mount Saint Alban in northwest Washington, D.C.
- Settlements
- One of several towns or communes of France:
- De Beauvoir (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Hackney.
- De Beauvoir Town, a district in North London, England.
- Others
- Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, a pedestrian bridge across the Seine River in Paris, France
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